First Published in 1995. The question of 'postmodernity' that has
swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical
comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the
same historical development as the West pass inevitably through
modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages
altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop
independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy,
poses such fundamental questions to social theory. Is Japan in fact
'unique' and as such is it a society which escapes the net of
conventional sociological abstractions? The book questions how
special Japanese society really is, the limitations of Western
social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a
complex Asian society, and inquires as to how Japan in turn may
speak to social theory and deepen and broaden the principles on
which social theory attempts to explore and categorize the social
and cultural worlds.
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